
In FindLaw’s
recently released 2014 consumer legal needs survey they found that fully 72% of respondents indicated that they only contacted one attorney before
selecting them. The remaining 15% contacted two attorneys and 13% three attorneys.
In short, nearly ¾ of consumers do not continue to shop around after initially
contacting an attorney.
SO WHAT CAN ATTORNEYS
LEARN FROM THIS?
We know from previous studies that people will on average
look at 4.8 attorney websites before they contact a firm – so they ARE shopping
around. The issue here is that the shopping process for attorneys ends 72% of
the time after the initial contact is made.
So what can be done to help improve this process BEFORE the
initial contact is made…
IMPROVE YOUR BRAND
& REPUTATION ONLINE
Online consumer opinions were the backbone to building such websites
as Amazon.com, ebay, Yelp and others. Why? Because 79% of consumers now
indicate that they trust online opinions about you. This is important for
attorneys because many page-one search results for attorneys and/or law firms
include consumer opinion sites like Yelp, AVVO, Google local and others. So
have you created a strategy
to manage your brand reputation online? Remember: if you do not proactively
define your brand, others will define it for you. Since most referrals are given
out in numbers, write down the names of your top 3-5 referrals competitors. Next,
Google their names and firm names and look at the results – compare them to
yours. Finally, look at their websites and also compare them to yours. If you
were an objective consumer who has never used an attorney before, which search results
impress you the most? If it is not you, you have work to do here.
IMPROVE YOUR ONLINE
PRESENCE
Is your online presence an accurate reflection of what you
want people to think of your firm (your brand)? As the old saying goes, you never
get a second chance to make a good first impression. Most attorneys today
already have a website so the question is moving beyond “IF” you need a website
to now “HOW” you need a website. Most of your new and referral clients are
looking at your website and formulating an opinion about you BEFORE they ever
contact you. They are also increasing looking beyond your website alone to look
for more information about you from other resources. In a growing number of instances, we are
seeing these “delayed conversions” in excess of 60% of the time.
INCREASE YOUR VISIBILITY
Most attorneys limit their brand and online presence to a website
alone and in most cases; their websites fail to provide high visibility in
Google for anything beyond their own names. As we have previously discussed, a
website is like a book and in order for search engines like Google to be
able to properly index and display your website for desired searches, you have
to structure the website optimally to do so. Additionally, your brand footprint should
extend well beyond just your website alone so you can create additional
citations to support your brand. People who don’t know you won’t always trust
what you tell them on your website alone – they want citations to support it.
These can come from videos, rating & accreditation websites, news, social
media and others. Want a great example of how this can look? Try this one: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=tom+girardi
INCREASE YOUR QUALITY
OF YOUR CONTACTS

In summary, people shop around for attorneys but 72% of the shopping stops at the first attorney
they contact. Since the majority of the decisions the consumers and referrals
make about you comes from their research online BEFORE they contact you, you
need to be smart, proactive and competitive in your evaluations of how you can become
the first attorney they chose to contact. You also need to make sure that they
way the majority of them prefer to contact you (PHONE) leads to a conversion
and not a hang-up.
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